Could you clarify the parking situation whereby one has to drive into an angle park or parking space at right angles to the kerb on a public road, those parking places being marked by painted white lines? Recently I saw two vehicles ticketed for backing into angle parking instead of driving in. A possible explanation is those drivers using a dangerous manoeuvre to back in across two lines of traffic. It's not the parking but the manoeuvres required to back in and drive out again, potentially obstructing traffic flow. Eric Strickett, Auckland.
It's not clearcut, as a woman in New Plymouth found recently, when she received a ticket for backing into an angle park. The Land Transport Road User Rule 2004 states: "If the road controlling authority has indicated that vehicles may be parked only at an angle to the direction of the roadway, a driver must not stand or park a vehicle (other than a cycle) otherwise than in accordance with the direction indicated."
Fair enough, but a number of drivers feel it is safer to back into an angle park and then drive out forwards. A little consideration of this situation would indicate that, apart from holding up traffic while you back into the slot, when you drive out you will be heading into oncoming traffic, which is less than desirable.
My advice would be, don't do it.
Can you please have explained how the bus "real time board" system works, or is supposed to work? My observation as a regular and often frustrated user of bus transport in Auckland is that the system, at best, offers little more than publishing the official schedule. Despite propositions previously advanced by various bus operators that their services achieve a 99 per cent "on-time" performance, my experience is that bus services are almost never on time (arrive within 2 minutes of the scheduled time). Paul Hale, Auckland.
